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...these earliest buildings, the real masterpieces are Massachusetts Hall, Holden Chapel, and Apthorp House. Massachusetts Hall, one of Harvard's truly prize possessions, is the oldest College building, constructed in 1720. Few University buildings of equal merit have been erected since. The classic simplicity of its Georgian lines, the excellence of its brickwork, and its immaculate proportions are impossible to better. Holden Chapel, designed by an unknown Englishman, is a very beautiful little building, which manages to look modest and aristocratic at the same time. Its symetrical simplicity is much like that of Massachusetts Hall, the only flourish being...
...first bit of marked domestic affluence to appear in colonial Cambridge was Apthorp House, a grand scale dwelling of 1760. It was built as a home for East Apthorp, an Anglican missionary, and its haughty grandeur infuriated the Congregationalists who then populated most of Cambridge and all of Harvard. They had worried for some time about the prospects of an Anglican bishopric being established in their midst and concluded that Apthorp's mansion was to be the "Bishop's Palace" and Apthorp the first bishop...
...Court and Randolph Hall, the former quietly Tudor, the latter faintly Gothic, both of them built around the turn of the century to provide elegant Gold Coast young gentlemen with elegant young apartments (F. D. Roosevelt '04 lived appropriately in Westmorly South, now B-entry). The third part is Apthorp House, Master Reuben A. Brower's official home, where he entertains and serves tea to students, guests, and girls from Radcliffe on Friday afternoons...
Pierre Boulez, composer, conductor, and planist, arrived from London this afternoon at Apthorp House, having evaded a large welcoming committee at Logan Airport. The famous musician will live in Adams House and teach Music 218a, "Studies in 20th-century music...
...most part the Adams House Drama Society has done well with this production, and it is at least half so because the Director (Ned Leavitt) makes such clever use of the space and trees of Apthorp House. with the help of Tom Martin's lighting he creates a carefully limited stage that seems built at once to accomodate members of Theseus' court and to confuse creatures who stray into the wood. Fairies hide in the trees, lovers sleep under them, clowns extricate themselves in branches...